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  • Whitman Archive Title: [Write a piece for address]
  • Whitman Archive ID: hun.00019
  • Repository ID: HM 1194
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
  • Repository Title: The dead in this war
  • Date: between 1864 and 1875
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: Notes about death during the U.S. Civil War, apparently intended for a projected lecture that never materialized. Whitman used these notes for the short essay "The Million Dead, too, summ'd up—The Unknown," which was first published in Memoranda During the War (1875–76).

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